Google Maps API Tutorial

Using the EBubble extension

You can use EBubbles in a similar manner to info windows, but the technology is completely different, and causes significant differences in the behaviour.

The background of an EBubble is fixed-size image file. That allows you to make the graphic as fancy as you like,
but it's obviously only suitable in situations where your contents conform to a standard size.

The EBubble is not attached to the map, it's attached directly to the <body>.
This has the advantage that the EBubble can lie partly outside the map, but has the disadvantage that it doesn't move when the map moves.

In order not to look silly when the map moved from under it, the EBubble closes when the map moves.

In order to minimise strange click-through behaviour, by default the EBubble closes when clicked.

The background image for that EBubble was created in PaintShopPro using a simple speech bubble object.
I applied the Inner Bevel effect to make it look a little 3D, added a central drop shadow, and gave the whole image partial transparency.